{"id":2650474,"date":"2026-08-27T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mich-dems-panic-demand-reporters-stop-asking-about-abdul-el-sayeds-relationship-with-jew-hating-leftist-streamer-hasan-piker\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:37:58","slug":"mich-dems-panic-demand-reporters-stop-asking-about-abdul-el-sayeds-relationship-with-jew-hating-leftist-streamer-hasan-piker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mich-dems-panic-demand-reporters-stop-asking-about-abdul-el-sayeds-relationship-with-jew-hating-leftist-streamer-hasan-piker\/","title":{"rendered":"Mich Dems Panic, Demand Reporters Stop Asking About Abdul El-Sayed&#8217;s Relationship with Jew-Hating, Leftist Streamer Hasan Piker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmich-dems-panic-demand-reporters-stop-asking-about-abdul-el-sayeds-relationship-with-jew-hating-leftist-streamer-hasan-piker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2650474&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses how abdul El-Sayed became the Democratic nominee for Michigan&#8217;s U.S. Senate largely due too support from left-wing online figures, especially streamer Hasan Piker. It covers Piker\u2019s controversial statements, including threats of violence against Jews and offensive comments about America, which El-Sayed did not disavow, raising concerns about his associations. Michigan Congresswoman Debbie Dingell attempted to shift attention away from Piker\u2019s influence,emphasizing that the campaign should focus on the election rather than online controversies. The piece highlights the potential political repercussions ofEl-Sayed\u2019s ties to Piker,noting criticisms from other Democrats like Rep. Hillary Scholten, and argues that distancing from Piker is likely unavoidable. It also reflects on the broader implications of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >political candidates aligning wiht divisive online figures<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roy-cooper-claims-concerns-over-gop-mark-robinson-as-reason-for-dropping-out-of-vp-race-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Roy Cooper claims concerns over GOP Mark Robinson as reason for dropping out of VP race ... Washington Examiner\">promote extreme views<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The only reason that Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan is the fact that the little-known former Wayne County health official got the support of the left-wing podcasting class \u2014 particularly Hasan Piker, the violent, anti-Semitic, communist Twitch troll.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed campaigned with the guy. He refused to disavow any of his positions, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/el-sayed-says-fine-campaigning-hasan-america-deserved-9-11-piker-says-focused-campaigning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piker\u2019s statement<\/a> that \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11.\u201d He was more than happy to receive any and all attention from Piker\u2019s millions of followers.<\/p>\n<p>And then, Piker threatened violence against Jews in general and a Democratic Michigan Jew in particular. So first, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/el-sayed-finally-scrambles-distance-hasan-piker-piker-openly-threatens-violence-american-jews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El-Sayed tried to distance<\/a> himself from Piker. That didn\u2019t work. Now, Michigan Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell is standing in for El-Sayed, saying during a campaign stop Wednesday that the Senate race between El-Sayed and Republican candidate Rep. Mike Rogers isn\u2019t about Piker and demanding that reporters stop asking her about the man who propelled El-Sayed to the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that\u2019ll work.<\/p>\n<p>The breaking point for El-Sayed and Piker, who were previously thick as thieves, came last week when, during a livestream, Piker put a picture on the screen of Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss \u2014 a Democrat who is both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrotimes.com\/news\/state-sen-moss-launches-us-congress-bid-outside-his-home-district-39335976\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jewish and openly gay<\/a>. Piker was ranting about American Jews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Jews in America keep putting this \u2014 this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone\u2019s going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews,\u201d Piker said \u2014 in what amounts to an explicit threat.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed issued a statement in response that \u201cI believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence\u201d and that his \u201ccommitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters.\u201d (If this last part is true, Michigan Children\u2019s Protective Services needs to intervene posthaste.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My statement on Hasan Piker\u2019s comments regarding Jeremy Moss: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bUm96ANJXT\">pic.twitter.com\/bUm96ANJXT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AbdulElSayed\/status\/2091930951873905147?\">August 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This worked every bit as well as it ought to have worked, which is why El-Sayed brought out the (relatively) moderate Rep. Dingell.<\/p>\n<p>Dingell has a long history in Michigan politics. She is the widow of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-public-honors-late-john-dingell-longest-serving-congressman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">late Rep. John Dingell<\/a>, who served for almost 60 years in the House. She has been in the House herself since 2015. And she used that political celebrity to lecture reporters about what Democrats would and would not talk about in the El-Sayed vs. Rogers race. Namely, they weren\u2019t going to be talking about Piker.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Democrat Rep. Debbie Dingell goes off on reporters: \u201cI am done! Don\u2019t any reporter ask me about Hasan Piker! It\u2019s not what November is about. Republicans are trying to divide us!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gu2t3q53T9\">pic.twitter.com\/Gu2t3q53T9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TheBlaze (@theblaze) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theblaze\/status\/2092743055354867814?\">August 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to tell you: This is just the opportunity to say something to you. I\u2019m done. This election is about what\u2019s going to happen when we elect Abdul [El-Sayed] to the United States Senate,\u201d Dingell said at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-dem-senate-candidate-el-sayed-says-sex-changes-minors-just-like-circumcision-trainwreck-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El-Sayed campaign<\/a> event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, don\u2019t any reporter ask me again about Hasan Piker, it\u2019s not what November is about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans are trying to make it, they\u2019re trying to divide us, and we got to stop letting them try to divide us. I don\u2019t agree with Hasan Piker on a lot of stuff, and I really don\u2019t agree with him on some of the woman things he said,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd we need to win in November, and we will reverse all of the things that they have done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that, if you\u2019re \u201cdone\u201d talking about Piker, you probably shouldn\u2019t have a candidate who\u2019s only there because he was propped up by the livestreamer. Another problem: Insisting that the media not talk about something is effectively inviting them to do so.<\/p>\n<p>People who grew up when I did will remember how many times Bill Clinton said he was done talking about the Monica Lewinsky scandal; those a bit older and wiser than me will remember Richard Nixon saying the same thing about Watergate. This rule isn\u2019t just true for presidents, either: Dictating to the media that you\u2019re through discussing an issue is effectively telling them this is precisely the issue they should be focusing on.<\/p>\n<p>And in the El-Sayed\/Piker case, it is.<\/p>\n<p>When the candidate first started campaigning with the livestreamer, Pike already had accumulated a litany of violent threats and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leftist-hasan-piker-says-israel-not-right-exist-compares-jewish-state-nazi-germany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noxious statements<\/a>, the worst of which was that \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11.\u201d This was hardly the only one, however, and he perhaps gave everyone a glimpse of the kind of senator El-Sayed would be with this statement: \u201cI f*** the Constitution. I wipe my a** with the Constitution. It\u2019s a f***ing piece of paper, dude.\u201d (Those statements can be found in a quick internet search. We\u2019re not linking to them here. The video is too vulgar.)<\/p>\n<p>And what say you, Mr. El-Sayed?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed says there is NOTHING that Hasan Piker has said that he disagrees with.<\/p>\n<p>JOURNALIST: \u201cAre there any views that Hasan holds that you disavow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EL-SAYED: \u201cI\u2019m not here to disavow people\u2019s views\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reminder: Piker said \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8U2IzctPZR\">pic.twitter.com\/8U2IzctPZR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/2041617110720225687?\">April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just state Sen. Moss that\u2019s soured on El-Sayed\u2019s relationship with the streamer, either. Democratic U.S. Rep. Hillary Scholten of Michigan (who <a href=\"https:\/\/scholten.house.gov\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is not Jewish<\/a>) wrote<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepScholten\/status\/2091955371233386696?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> in a post<\/a> on the social media platform X that Piker is \u201churting the chances of a Democratic majority in November\u201d and is refusing to coordinate campaign events with the senatorial nominee, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2026\/08\/25\/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-piker-01048710\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>. I doubt she\u2019ll be the last.<\/p>\n<p>So, sorry, Rep. Dingell: The chances are that you\u2019re going to have plenty of reporters asking you about Hasan Piker and El-Sayed\u2019s refusal to fully disavow him, or you\u2019re going to have to break ties with with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/docs-dem-darling-abdul-el-sayeds-mother-worked-islamic-charity-helped-fund-bin-laden-taliban-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El-Sayed\u2019s campaign<\/a>. 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